Bitcoin has been around for 17 years now.
Looking back, what part of Bitcoins journey has surprised you the most?
And what do you think someone from 2010 would find hardest to believe about Bitcoin today?
Maybe the price, institutional adoption, countries holding it, the size of the mining industry, or simply how long Bitcoin has survived.
What would you have found hardest to believe back then?
Id say its security.
From its early years, Bitcoin has always had a strong underlying design, with proof-of-work, decentralised validation, cryptographic signatures, and the longest-chain rule already present from the beginning, but the economic and computational security protecting that model was not.
The current presence of these qualities within its network, in my opinion, has made it possible for several yield-generating layers like Babylon Labs, Stacks, Bitlayer, and Rootstock, amongst others, to thrive while the ingenuity of Bitcoins foundational framework stays intact, warranting institutional trust.
This level of security is one I did not foresee at the onset.